Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

The sun rises in the east.

It dispelled the lingering chill of the entire night.

Shen Jue squinted, staring directly at the morning sun, and shouted, "You wicked thing!"

"Getting up so late?"

Beside Shen Jue were several newly erected graves.

Shen Jue buried the remains of his younger siblings ten meters underground.

In this way, wild beasts or cannibals wandering by would not be able to easily dig up the remains of their younger siblings.

Goodbye, Miko, Ai, Hirata.

"May you live in a happy and peaceful world in your next life, where there are no cannibals."

Shen Jue bid farewell to her younger siblings, shouldered a heavy box that was only half her height, and walked towards an unfamiliar direction, her feet sinking into the gray-black soil.

This is a sparsely populated wilderness where occasionally tax-evading farmers come to live in seclusion.

More often, there are special individuals like Shen Jue who are being pursued.

The Spring Warmth Orphanage did not let go of Shen Jue and the others who had escaped; instead, it cooperated with the Japanese government to issue an arrest warrant.

They also secretly put up a bounty on Shen Jue and his group.

The heavy box was firmly secured to Shen Jue's back.

Inside were three man-eating demons that Shen Jue had compressed into a ball shape using a special method.

Shen Jue strolled across the wilderness, occasionally hearing the three cannibals huddled in the box emitting mournful howls, and nodded in satisfaction.

Shen Jue's goal is to find the members of the Demon Slayer Corps who are hunting down the cannibals.

Shen Jue was extremely interested in special breathing techniques such as Sun Breathing, Rock Breathing, and Thunder Breathing, which could greatly enhance the human body.

As for revenge? Shen Jue wasn't in a hurry. One must eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time.

In the world of Demon Slayer, the island of Hijikata during the Taisho era was already equipped with weapons and equipment from the First World War era of the previous life.

To the higher-ups on the island, a few cannibals might just be moss.

The number of humans devoured by cannibals is still a fraction of the number killed by humans in large-scale wars.

Even if the cannibals are nearly invincible at night, once daytime arrives, it will be the human world again.

Immortality, super-fast regeneration, and strength far exceeding that of ordinary humans—these cannibals are likely quite tempting to some of the higher-ups on the Japanese island.

If all cannibals weren't controlled by Muzan Kibutsuji and had a weakness for sunlight, Shen Jue believed that the higher-ups of the Japanese island would probably all be cannibals.

But how are the current high-ranking officials of Japan any different from cannibals?

It's simply a matter of one being more elegant and the other more vulgar.

They all eat people.

Even though the lives of the people on the island are much better than before.

Shen Jue was gone for several days.

He hurried on his journey during the day and repaired the toys stored in the box at night.

The simple yet fulfilling life brought more smiles to Shen Jue's face.

It wasn't until Shen Jue encountered several swordsmen wearing Nichirin Blades and uniform attire on a country road that he came to this.

Leading these swordsmen hurried along the country road was a petite woman with black hair dyed purple at the ends, styled in an elegant evening perm, and purple eyes that always held a gentle smile.

She wore a haori with butterfly wing patterns, which was her deceased sister's keepsake.

The newcomer was none other than the Insect Hashira, one of the nine Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, a user of Insect Breathing, the owner of the medical facility "Chonoya," and a swordsman proficient in pharmacology and toxicology.

Although Shen Jue didn't understand why the Insect Pillar Shinobu Kocho was here, how could he give up such a good opportunity after searching for the Demon Slayer Corps for so many days?

After many days of travel, Shen Jue looked like a wild man, disheveled and unkempt.

However, Shen Jue still firmly stopped the Insect Pillar Shinobu Kocho and several Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen.

"Swordsmen, please wait a moment!" Shen Jue spread his arms and stood in front of the Insect Pillar and several Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen.

"I am Shen Jue, an exile who has come to this place. Please allow me to join you in slaying the man-eating demons!"

Shinobu Kocho, the Insect Pillar, was already on high alert the moment Shen Jue appeared.

This petite, gentle, and occasionally cunning woman, with her expertise in pharmacology and toxicology, immediately sensed the presence of the cannibal.

The specially made rapier was drawn by the Insect Pillar Shinobu Kocho. Because of her delicate figure and insufficient wrist strength, this Insect Pillar mostly killed the ogres with extremely fast thrusts.

The Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen drew their swords, wary of Shen Jue blocking their path.

Even during the daytime, the Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen did not lose their vigilance.

The Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen who lacked shrewdness had already died in the battle to exterminate the cannibals.

"You smell like a cannibal," Shinobu Kocho said in a gentle voice, her eyes fixed on Shen Jue's back.

Behind Shen Jue, the extremely strong smell of blood and cannibals almost made Shinobu Kocho, the Insect Pillar, take action immediately.

Shen Jue immediately placed the box on her back beside her, and with an innocent and naive expression, said, "This is the cannibal that killed my younger siblings."

"I compressed them into cubes so I could entertain myself at night."

"Are you kidding me?" One of the Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen, upon hearing Shen Jue's explanation, immediately blushed and shouted, "That's a man-eating demon!"

"How could you possibly capture an evil spirit when you walk without any rhythmic breathing?!"

Shen Jue was not angry at the reprimand, because he knew that every swordsman in the Demon Slayer Corps was a pitiful person who had lost his family and friends because of cannibals.

If cannibals are just objects that ordinary people can play with at will, then what about the relatives and friends that these Demon Slayer Corps members lost?

"I'm an orphan," Shen Jue replied with a smile, "and I led my family to escape from hell."

"But I've arrived at another hell."

"I'm very lucky."

"On the verge of death, I gained power beyond my wildest imagination."

"But my brothers and sisters did not live to see my salvation."

"They were just like everyone else killed by cannibals, people who shouldn't have died."

"I want to use this power to kill all the cannibals."

Shen Jue said loudly. At this moment, in the eyes of several Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen, he was already a pitiful person in the same situation as them.

To prove himself, Shen Jue came to a fallen weeping willow tree by a country road.

With disheveled hair and dirty face, Shen Jue bent over, slumped his shoulders, lowered his elbows, and with a shout, shook the willow tree that the two of them could not hug, with just a lift!

They pulled up the weeping willow along with the soil around its roots!

In ancient times, there was Lu Zhishen uprooting a willow tree! Now, Shen Jue on the Japanese island has imitated the story of a demon star descending to earth!

The Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen stared wide-eyed, their Nichirin Blades falling to the ground.

Only Shinobu's expression shifted. What she saw was not only Shen Jue's unparalleled divine power, but also the hatred hidden in Shen Jue's lonely, lifeless heart.

This reminded Shinobu Kocho of Kanae Kocho, the former Flower Pillar who died at the hands of Upper Moon Two, Doma.

Shen Jue threw away the willow branch and smiled as he looked at the swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps.

Shinobu Kocho's figure flashed and she arrived beside Shen Jue.

Shen Jue suppressed his subconscious urge to act and calmly looked at the delicate and beautiful Shinobu Kocho in front of him.

The butterfly remained silent, but simply wrapped its arms around Shen Jue's waist.

Shen Jue smelled the unique fragrance and sensed the gentle side of Shinobu Kocho.

His heart skipped a beat, and he relaxed.